Example sentences of "have [been] as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racist atrocity has been as much a part of the American experience of war as any other nation . |
| 2 | Friction between locals and newcomers has been as much a function of this as of any other factor , a conflict between the aesthetic appreciation of the qualities of the English countryside and a utilitarian assessment of its productive capacity . |
| 3 | Remembered as a son of the King Cenberht who had been a co-ruler of the western Saxons with Cenwealh before his death in the 660s ( see above , p. 49 ) , he may have been as much a victim of the impact of earlier Mercian expansion under Wulfhere as of internal strife . |
| 4 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 5 | Better to remember that he had called her sweetheart tonight , and it had been as much a sham as his kiss . |